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Resident asks county to review psychiatric incident report that lists 'suicide' for nonverbal adult
Summary
A Lawrence County resident urged commissioners to ask Western Psychiatric Hospital and county agencies to correct an incident and discharge record that his son — described as nonverbal and disabled — was marked as suicidal. The board did not take formal action but the speaker requested staff contact hospital and state program officials.
A resident who identified himself as Mr. Ritter told the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 5 that an incident report and discharge summary from Western Psychiatric Hospital incorrectly lists “suicide” in connection with his adult son, who he said is nonverbal and disabled. The complaint matters, the man said, because the record affects his son’s file with state programs and could follow him for life. “They put down suicide,” he said, describing the entry as “a computer generated mistake”…
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